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Personalized Learning
New Study Shows Benefits of Visual Game-Based Math
WestEd study showed significant achievement gains from the use of visual game-based ST Math in 129 California elementary schools.
Uncategorized
The Next Big Thing in Personalization: The Student
By: Arthur VanderVeen. What’s been missing in learning technologies—and what will be the next big focus in personalization—is the student.
EdTech
Skilling Up Fast with Core Skills Mastery
According to founder David Goldberg, Core Skills Mastery delivers literacy, problem solving and work skills at levels better than the skills and dispositions of most college graduates.
Personalized Learning
Photoblog | Getting Smart at #iNACOL14 Day 2
Photos from Team Getting Smart at Day two iNACOL Blended and Online Learning Symposium (#iNACOL14), that brought together 2,500 experts and educational leaders.
Personalized Learning
Lighting the Path to Personalized Learning
A Getting Smart report, produced in partnership with Next Generation Learning Challenges, that tells the stories of schools across the country that are dedicated to creating a next gen learning environment that sets high expectations for college readiness, personalizes learning for all students, and is optimized for scale.
EdTech
Got Red-Pen Grading Cramps? Kaizena Can Help
There once was a time when the only tool available to grade essays was the proverbial red pen. But not any longer. Kaizena is today's red pen.
EdTech
On Promoting Efficacy: A Conversation with John Tweeddale
Tom talks with Boston based, John Tweeddale, Senior Vice President of Efficacy and Quality at Pearson, on the work of his team promoting efficacy.
EdTech
A Solution to Higher Retention and Graduation, and Lower Student Debt is Simpler Than You Think
How changing majors and not choosing the right major for your career impacts retention, graduation and student debt, and potential platform solutions to support in pathway selection.
Leadership
Next Gen Principal Prep: Blended, Personalized, Competency-based
It’s time to rethink leadership preparation in education. The linear model is obsolete, expensive, and time consuming. It’s time for new pathways and new partnerships that prepare leaders for the schools our young people deserve. New models of preparation must be about matching leadership to the next generation environment where they will serve.
EdTech
Data Analytics Tools in U.S. K-12
Education has the potential to be one of the most data-driven sectors in the U.S., but too often the data that teachers and administrators are saddled with is untimely or inactionable. We’re excited to see that change.